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Originally Posted by saillias
The Wideman suspension also coincided with the Ramo injury and then Russell injury and the sell-off of our 3 UFAs. We were going to sink there either way.
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Yup, it turns out Ramo's injury was that 5th game of the suspension (I'd thought it was a bit later), so it is certainly fair to correlate the slide more with that. The Flames staying within a sniff probably wouldn't have been a good thing as it might have limited the deadline sell-off.
IMO Wideman isn't nearly as bad as many people here say; although he is certainly not playing to the value of his contract. My point is that the Flames could have a legitimate argument of suffering damages in this whole situation.